Earlier this week a rumor started going around that Joanna Newsom was set to appear on The Simpsons. According to Malibu Magazine, Newsom’s credentials included, “… a future scheduled stop with her harp on The Simpsons” (the line has since been removed from the story). Her appearance at the Matt Groening-c...

The best part of this video, however, is the description. It lets us know that Madeline has been asking to listen to Joanna Newsom since she started to talk, and that she refers to Newsom as “baby singing.” Kids say the darnedest, most accurate things. Here’s Madeline doing “Sprout and the Bean”:

Singer-songwriter will begin the jaunt in Tucson, Arizona on November 6

Joanna Newsom returned to Jimmy Kimmel Live (she did “Sprout And The Bean” years ago) to do “Me And You, Bess” and “81.” Watch:(via CoS)Have One On Me is out now via Drag City.

Photos of a sold-out show on Saturday in L.A. by Joanna Newsom (complete with standing ovation and a female would-be-stage-crasher blocked by security), with an opening set by an apologetic Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes, paranoid that his voice wouldn’t work properly after having quit smoking. (Of course it did, and also CONGRATS ROBIN...